Mud-and-rock-strewn area next to a destroyed house after a catastrophic flood and mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934

Title: Mud-and-rock-strewn area next to a destroyed house after a catastrophic flood and mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
Date Created: 1934
Date: 1934
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: View of the boulder-strewn area next to a destroyed house after a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January or October). Trees and the shell of the stone house on the right still stands.
In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. Two floods followed the next year. In late December, a series of storms dropped 12 inches of rain. On New Year's Eve, heavy rains led to sporadic flooding. Around midnight, mountain hillsides collapsed sending millions of tons of mud into the Crescenta Valley neighborhoods below. More than 400 homes were destroyed in La Cañada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless. Another rainstorm on October 17 caused additional flooding and damage, but no deaths.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Floods, Montrose, 1934

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Landslides--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Dwellings--California--La Crescenta-Montrose

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_4617
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002ctgtk
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